The Forrest City times., 1887-10-29
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS

[ tAFVtFcN ii autAti1hlty aoO1A a "ohahs when Ross downed his adversary with q chair. Breckenridge, rising to his feet, opened a razor and thrust 1t into Ross throat. Ross was taken home in a preeaTi0us condition. The man doing the cutting made his escape to the ] Arkansas side, but was arrested and is now in jail awaiting the result of the cut inflicted.
 The Carlisle Club Of Hot Springs ex- tended an invitation to the Hon. John | that city, to address the club on eur rent political issues. Speaker Carlisle responded by remarking that he didn't think it necessary to expound Demo- l cratic issues in a Democratic strong ! hold like Arkansas, but he nevertheless accepted the clubs cordial invitation, and will speak some night next week. l He has been invited to stump Ohio, and may leave in about two weeks for the Buckeye State. but his movements de- pend very much upon the health of his wife, for whose benefit they are now visiting Hot Springs.
 J. K. Andrews, State Business Agent of the Agricultural Wheel, goes to St. Louis to confer with the mer- chants Of that city In regard to loeat- ing the State Wheel Purching Agency in that city. A committee of wheelers will also visit Memphis with A view of locating c branch agency there.
 The tax levy in Clay county Is f | mills.
 Typhoid fever Is prevalent in and around Greenbrier.
 The county court of Pope county voted to levy a tax of mills for the coming year.
 Sam Jones is to be tried for murder at the next term of the Benton county circuit court.
 Many farmers in Cleveland county have finished picking cotton and turned their stock into the fields.
 J. ". Brooks gin, near okolona, in Clark county, burned the other day, with eight bales Of cotton.
 The Southern ol mill in Little Rock got regularly to work last week and is now run-ring at full blast.
 Experienced planters say cotton in the Arkansas river bottoms will be pretty thoroughly picked out by November.
 There is darky in the penitent iary at Little Rock who draws pension from Uncle Sam for having got hurt in the war.
 The Fort Smith fair will distribute sl ,500 in premiums on fruit, and s2,Oo0 in premiums on field products.
 Bay Village doctors are kept riding day and night attending upon people i'll with pneumonia. Many cases have proved fatal.
 Cotton on bottom lands in Lee county is better crop than last year. though the average for the country Ia probably l5 per cent. less this year than last. In the hiIly portions of Lincoln county the cotton crop will be less than last year. On some of the bottom lands the yield will be greater than last years,
 1 Prairie fires have caused much loss Of live stock in Lonoke and Arkansas counties. It is said that Grand Prairie has been burned over for a distance of thirty miles.
 In Saline county corn is estimated at 80 per cent. of an average crop and cotton at half bale to the acre. Sweet potatoes will be about one-third of a crop; turnips almost failure.
 A widow lady 60 years old, named Moore, residing with her two grown sons on farm near Woodyille, Ky, a few miles from Cairo, was brutally murdered Saturday morning. Her sons had been in the field at work, as usual, and upon their return at noon found her dead upon the floor, with her skuh broken in and showing other evidences Of brutality. There is no clew whatever to the authors of the foul deed. It is supposed that the murderers were after money, as it was l generally understood they kept valu- ables and cash in the house. Nothing, however was obtained.
 An unfathomabIe hole of water, 1t is said, has been discovered near Jack sonville The water stands on a level with the surface around, has neither outlet nor inlet, and abounds with fsh.
 Fishermen and hunters are ha ing a regular Tom Liddler time of it in the vicinity of Bay Village. in Cross eoan- ] ty. The waters abound in buffalo fish that are easily caught, and the woods are full of wild turkeys, fat, juicy and tender.
 There were fine exhibits of poultry. swine, cattle and horses at the Harri- son fair. In the baby show there were ten entries, Bessie Gladden. of Boone county, whose mother Is a survivor of the Mountain Meadow massacre, win ming first prize-
 Over the entrance to the hortieul- tural fair in Rogers, last week, was in- seribed the title given to Northwest Arkansas, the Apple Orchard of America" the words being spelled in -'0 AA~HV VI hpplcs- I uc tpifnu4u exhibits displayed at this fair show that the harvest Of field. orchard and vineyard crops has this year been abundant. The weather was glorious and the attendance large.
 In the Williamson county circuit court now in session in Marion, the time of the court since last Tuesday morning has been taken up with the trial of & murder case known as the SkidT ore-Ford ease. At Creal Springs, in Williamson county, a few months ago, David Skidmore shot and killed Willie Ford, deaf mute. The two men had been using water out oi the same cistern and quarreled about the matter. The evidence evinced the fact quite clearly that Skidmore killed Ford